A little more repetitive explanation of sorts… please bear with it… we will get to some new stuff very soon.

We are now almost a month into our third year here at Zero’s World and it’s time for some new hashtags, but I know there are some out there that still don’t understand my hashtags, so again, I’ll explain.

It started as a sort of inside joke that grew into another inside joke. Back when I first discovered Twitter I kept seeing the # sign all over the place. I stupidly called it a pound sign not knowing it was called a hashtag, but I was quickly schooled to what it was. I understood people used them to connect their Tweets to other tweets of similar subjects, but I thought people get a little “hashtag happy”. They hashtag everything and it made me laugh a little. Soon after that other social media sites including Facebook was using hashtags, they were here to stay and everyone was “hashtag happy”. Later when I started Zero’s World on Facebook and Twitter (yes there is still a Zero’s World Twitter I just hate going there, Twitter is way too depressing), I used hashtags (#) not only to link the blog posts to trending topics, but as an inside joke on hashtags by over using them. I really overused them for a while.

Now, the average reader may not know this, but I brought Linda to social media, seriously I did, ask her. I’ve apologised to her several times for it, it’s a messed up thing to do to someone, I know. So when Linda saw all my use of hashtags (#) she asked what they were for. I explained as it was first explained to me. I also told her I was using them so much to kind of poke fun at people who use them way too much. It was then I decided to make a running gag type hashtag on the blog. A hashtag tour. With that #2014FuckYouTour was born. It seemed right since the blog had started with a top 10 “fuck you” list. It wasn’t quite the typical hashtag since it was very unlikely someone else out there would hashtag their post or tweet #2014FuckYouTour, so it was very unlikely my posts and tweets would be connected to other posts and tweets which is the main purpose of the hashtag as I already explained. But it did make fun of overused hashtags, so mission accomplished. Plus the hashtag did work well on Facebook connecting all blog posts and Facebook posts that had to do with hate pages and sites found on Facebook and other social media. In fact that’s what the whole tour was about… saying fuck you to the racist and homophobic nut cases polluting social media. And I had lots of fun doing it.

I had so much fun that when the second year of the blog came to an end, I decided to have a new hashtag (#). I wanted something that I knew would puzzle people but also fit very well with how I thought the blog would go that second year. I came up with #WorldsCollide.

What did it mean? Well quite a lot actually. Do you know what it’s like when friends at work start to hang out with your friends outside work? Or when old friends you grew up with start to hang out with your new friends? Or when any of your friends get friendly with family members? You know, when one part of your life merges with a totally separate part of your life. It may go great and make things even better than before. Or it could go bad, creating waves and explosions. I could give more specific examples, but I think that will do. it was this basic idea of worlds colliding that I based the hashtag on, but like so much here it meant much more than that. It was about the upcoming clashes of politics and religion we could all see coming in the world. All the world colliding with itself and everyone’s individual world in danger of being destroyed by these collisions.

And worlds did collide, which I helped out by sharing links to the blog all over, colliding the worlds of Dorothy and her friends and foes as well as Bill Windsor and his Lawless Lemmings. bringing some of them here… worlds colliding. And then I brought some of my own world in by posting links to the blog on both my regular Facebook (lol, regular Facebook, you all know what that means, I wonder how many people out there have at least 2 Facebook accounts) and my old Stranger Facebook bringing in people from my own world to collide here. It actually made the off-blog discussions really kick into high gear. with so many worlds colliding, much more people were finding the blog and wondering what the hell it was really about.

As the second year went on, the 2016 presidential race started up. I felt it needed its own hashtag (#). I decided since it was year two on the blog, why not 2 hashtags, and then in year three we could have 3 hashtags… beauty idea, eh?

I wanted it to be a really long hashtag… one that said way too much and would never link to any other’s hashtag. I came up with:
#2016PresidentialElectionCoverageAndOtherPoliticalStuffThatNeedsToBeDiscussed

Perfect!

There you have it, the Zero’s World Hashtags explained (again). And now it’s time for the third year of hashtags, and as I just explained, there will be 3 of them (the number of hashtags matching the year that the blog is in, get it now?). I was just gonna throw them in when I felt like it, but why confuse it all again when I can announce each of them ahead of time and explain exactly what they mean and the give 3 separate examples. So here we go.

First we have:

#Three– Did you see it coming? It’s the third year so you can expect a lot of threes in it and they will all be marked with the #Three. The cool thing about this is it might actually work as a real hashtag and connect my 3s to other posts and tweets about other 3s. There’s definitely more of a chance than the first 3 hashtags of the previous 2 years had.

Next there’s:

#2016PresdidentialElectionCoverage– I had to continue the presidential coverage, it’s just getting good. I had to shorten the tag though, the other one was way to long to remember. This one has an even greater chance of being an actual used hashtag, so I guess it’s time to dust off the Twitter account.

The third and final hashtag of year three is a special one. You see, since I started there have been some out there who really want to try to get at me. “Printin’ lies startin’ controversy”. (that’s from the Guns N’ Roses song Get In The Ring. Did you guys hear they are getting back together? I can’t fucking wait!)

Plus there are those out there who have been dealing with madness much longer than me. so the third hashtag will be for all those (you know who you are) who have had to put up with some messed up behavior from a certain group of people (you also know who you are). They are special posts that will be marked with #Purge. I’m sure these posts will delight some while others might not be so delighted.

There you have it, the Zero’s World Hashtags explained in full detail. But if you are still lost, the next 3 posts will be examples of each of the new hashtags.

This blog is very organic… I blog about what ever is on my mind (that is not always easy to decipher since so much is on my mind lately), what ever is going on in my life, my blogs, and the world in which we all live. It can jump around or get very fixated. It can even go silent when I come to an empty page and decide once again not to write anything. That doesn’t mean I don’t come to it, don’t deal with emails and private messages about it, or not chase the internet on subjects I should be writing about. It’s just when I come to the actual part of putting it all into words lately, I’m already exhausted and just can’t bring myself to separate my thoughts on one idea long enough to type them down.

This has happened before… so much going on around me that I just need a break from the blog… maybe even the internet… the thing is this time I had a break, my haunt season break, I should be ready to go and I am… but there is just so much going on and I have so many different ideas about what I need to blog about (a big part of me feels this blog is slowly becoming another “Red & Black” Prophet Blog, and I have mixed feelings about that. I stopped that blog with good reasons, and going back to it may not even be possible after the places we have gone since then) and posts are getting left in the “Post Graveyard” or worse yet, left in my head to be forgotten or resurfaced depending on this organic blog.

This blog centers around 3 things most of the time… my personal life and it’s experiences, the internet and how it affects that personal life (both of these deal with the world around us, such as the Arts, Politics, and Religion and how they affect the personal and internet life and how the personal and internet life affect them), and third the crazies I have encountered while blogging about the first 2. I try to stay balanced, but sometimes we get stuck. Which is ok, but I don’t like getting stuck on nothing, and that is where I am.

It’s not hard to understand why I’m stuck. I just spent a lot of time away from the blog. And as most of you know I spent most of my free time over the last few months with one of the top haunts in the world: FRIGHT DOME! (shameless plug, but it’s true) I had totally planned on blogging about this season a little more and not staying away for so long. And this season was full of ups and downs that would have been great to blog about and many posts were in my head ready to write down. But whenever I decide to start a personal blog I have to think about that third thing I mentioned above. The crazies I have blogged about like to use all that personal stuff to whatever craziness they can come up with in their crazy heads. Most of you will remember the private messages between Kate and Dorothy that I posted about a year ago (remember the super bowl party?), but there was much more to that conversation. At one point Dorothy writes about how she looks at all the Facebook’s of people connected to zero (me), mostly haunt people or people into haunts. She calls them devil worshipers and even says something about someone’s wife… something about their looks, as in they were not pretty. Shallow stuff we come to know from the Dorothy team, but we also know these nuts are dangerous with the things they say, so after seeing first hand how Dorothy looks into people around me, and not knowing how many crazy people she talks to, nor how many of these crazies and the other crazies we know are discussing my personal information and people who may or may not know me, I have to pause and think real hard if I even want to make a post discussing friends, family, and personal experiences.

So yes, I wanted to blog about the things that happened this season. I broke my foot, the cast of Big Brother came through, the 13th season had so much triumph and turbulence, I was excited about telling some of the stories. But each time I’d think about Dorothy and that ever-growing nut gallery and wonder if I should put so much personal stuff out there, I mean there’s already enough and there’s always some new nut and I’m bound to write something they won’t like and, well as much as I want to write about my haunt season, I just keep deciding to put each post off till it’s already the middle of November and I really should just move on.

Some may say, hey that’s not fair, you don’t mind posting about these crazy people, but won’t put your own personal stories up. Good argument if it were true. But it’s not. I post all sorts of personal posts. I’m not afraid for people to know my stuff, it’s just the people around me who have no idea what is going on in this blog or who these crazies even are that I second guess my posts for. And plus like I’ve said before, the stuff I post about is usually already out there or what people have been putting out there for years. But some people will never see it that way and therefore I post less and less personal stuff. So I guess no haunt stories. Maybe another time.

Though I have to say this about the haunts I have worked for, and this goes out to Dorothy, Cristin, and anyone else who has a misconception of people who work at haunts. Yes, most are into Halloween and/or horror movies, that’s a given. But you might want to think twice before you judge them. Half of them are newly highschool graduates starting college or heading out into the world for the first time, and the haunt is their first job experience. There are also quite a bit of school teachers and veterans. People living with disabilities and those who have survived cancer, yea I have worked with a lot of cancer survivors over the years, whose stories of survival would humble most reading here (crazies with the victim psychosis not included). I’ve been doing Fright Dome since 2007 and I have had the pleasure to work with some truly amazing people, so while I am protective of not mentioning it at all so the likes of Dot and Nan Nan don’t do their evil on good people, I have to point out that they are good people, whose shoes you have not walked in. (SHOES! Dropping, walking, the shoes are there, red ones and all!)

Another catch 22… or contradicting riddle. Don’t want to talk about my personal life as to not give the crazies things to distort and yet the need to correct any distortions. Such is life, both the real one and the internet one.

Before we leave the subject of the haunt, I need to post a couple of pictures of my new characters this season:

Patient Zero

Zero Da Klown

Some more of that #WorldsCollide with zero’s world making its way further into the haunt world… but here is where we must leave it for now… the haunt is over.

Fine, easy enough, skip all of that. There was plenty of things going on in the world around us that I had no problem coming up with what to blog about. And after the tragic events in Paris on Friday the 13th my television has been on the news night and day and there has been so many things to blog about such as terrorism in general and how it is affecting us. When does crazy become evil? Will our government lost in politics and the upcoming presidential election lead us into the eye of that craziness and a “Holy War”? Are we now making decisions out of fear? Are refugees and others coming into our country dangerous? Should there be a coalition with Russia? Do we need troops on the ground? Should POTUS just say the words “Islamic Extremist”? When did The President Of The United States become POTUS?”

Discussion is good and we do need it. But real change in all these maters are no where in sight. Politics, Religion and the quest for land and power is a greedy trip that is way too imbedded into what we are. All we can really do is say thoughts and prayers are with the families of the victims and hope someday it wont be like this. And I have that hope. But I don’t see that journey all sunny days and lemon aide.

So blogging about it does bring me down a little I guess, and I tend to back out of such posts. After all I don’t have the answers needed to such topics.

Still as I said, discussion is needed and I’m sure there will be much more discussed here, on this blog, on all of this. After all we are going into a presidential election year.

Before we move on there is one part of the sad world of current events that I don’t want to skip over and loose it forever.

That is the subject of Anonymous getting involved with ISIL, or if your politics prefer ISIS:

I was really wanting to quickly post about it. I have a tendency to let Anonymous related posts get unfinished. This is mainly because I just don’t know what they do half the time. I’ve said before, I want to believe in them, that what they do helps, but I can’t help but wonder, do they make things better or worse?

And before I could post about them getting involved, that question was again raised in things that followed.

First Anonymous seemed to live up to their word helping by exposing and having deleted, ISIL/ISIS Twitter accounts:

It seems Anonymous has discovered where ISIL/ISIS will attack next and reported it to the worlds leaders and governments, but don’t feel, they (leaders and governments) are doing anything about it so, they (Anonymous) had to make these targets known to the world via the internet.

That day is today, Sunday, November 22, 2015, and they put up quite a bit of targets.

Before we can even discus if this is the right thing to do or if it helps spread more fear. Before we can ask what our leaders and governments should be doing to check on these and other recently posted fear propaganda declaring more attacks are coming. You get this:

You might have seen this in the above posts… yep, Anonymous denies the earlier Anonymous tweets. That’s the problem when any one in a Guy Fawkes mask can be Anonymous, and I believe I have said this before.

So do they hurt or help? Whoa, how did I get here? Not where I was heading and I probably shouldn’t be poking at the vast Anonymous army of delinquents right now. But before I can even finish any thoughts on Anonymous’ affect in the fight against ISIL/ISIS something new comes into the picture:

Wait, who is Ghost Security Group?

Well, I went searching/chasing the internet last night and today and it seems there is a new group in town:

Wow, Anonymous Vs. Ghost Security Group… sounds like a long forgotten post of mine called Anonymous Vs. The Illuminati. This was after the Malaysian Airlines MH370 crash/disappearance and I had come across this on YouTube:

I never finished the post, because as usual, I didn’t see anything come of what Anonymous was proposing. Still asking, do they help or hurt?

But my questions about groups like The Illuminati, Anonymous, CICADA 3310, and now a new one for me, Ghost Security Group are matched with my hopes one of them is the super hero they claim to be… man, we could use a super hero right now. Plenty of people ready to step up and try to be the villains, we know that.

I will be keeping my eye on this Ghost Security Group, a smaller Anonymous, with more purpose than CICADA, and not fake like The Illuminati… yes, I’m intrigued once again.

That’s both this years hashtags in one post. Good, gotta get them in there as much as possible, the year is almost over and other hashtags await.

And that’s where we will leave the Politics and Religion darkening the world as we speak. Too much conflicting ideas there, all waiting to contradict. Some of you know there are C words I have a problem with… and some I don’t…

Which brings us back to that third thing… the crazies… (were you thinking of another c word?) Yes, if I am to escape the craziness of the world for the moment, what better place than the crazies that keep me from more personal posts? They are still out there, and a few new ones have crept into the comments and emails lately. I’ve stayed away long enough, no?

Why we are waiting for the weekend, I thought I’d mention that Big Brother 17 starts tonight. I’ve mentioned several times that reality T.V. is a staple in my house. And it all started years ago with Big Brother and Survivor (well it really started with Real World on MTV, but it was Big Brother and Survivor that made reality T.V. family T.V. in my house). I have watched every season of Big Brother and Survivor. In fact Big Brother is the only summer show I really watch (sorry “Under the Dome” I tried, I really did). I’ve done my best not to look up any thing on-line about tonight’s show or the season to come, but I did catch a couple of things that made me think we are in for a fun season. The theme this season is “the beach”, which is awesome! I will definitely be in my “beach outfit”! The other thing I heard was there was a transgender woman in the cast this season. That too is awesome! And about time, England’s version of the show already had a transgender winner. Well, I allowed myself to do a little Googling on this season’s cast and found this: http://haveuheard.net/2015/06/big-brother-2015-season-17-cast-announced-transgender-woman-cast/

This should be a record-breaking season as far as viewers. It could also create quite a stir on the internet. And you know how I love that. Yes, I’d say that this season of Big Brother could qualify as a #WorldsCollide moment. You know I’m there!